I excitedly downloaded and compiled 5.10 yesterday, and tried out some of the new features. There's one, though, that did not work as I expected: 
#!/opt/perl/bin/perl 

use strict;
use warnings;

use 5.010;

my $str = 'Digits: 123689';

if ($str =~ m{Digits: \s* (?<digit>\d)+ }x) {
    say 'Digits: ', join(', ', @{$-{digit}});
}

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This prints, I mean, says: 
Digits: 9

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So it appears that on a quantified named capture, only the last match is captured in %-. This seems very counterintuitive to me. Isn't the whole point of %- that it captures all matches?

Of course, I can do something like: 
(?<digit>\d)? (?<digit>\d)? (?<digit>\d)? (?<digit>\d)? (?<digit>\d)? 
+(?<digit>\d)? (?<digit>\d)? (?<digit>\d)? (?<digit>\d)? (?<digit>\d)?

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which works, but that's just plain silly... Is this a bug? Or simply not an implemented feature? Or is there a good reason why %- does not capture this?

Thanks,

- Michael

In reply to Quantified named captures in 5.10 by mscha

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